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Published on: November 24, 2021
Complexity engineering: New ideas for engineering design and engineering education
Mauro Zilbovicius1, JosÉ Roberto C Piqueira1, Laerte Sznelvar1
1Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Controle, Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, Travessa do Politécnico, 158, 05508-010 SP, Brazil.
Abstract:
This paper presents a theoretical approach to complexity engineering by considering the complex thinking framework proposed by Edgar Morin. The main foundations of this approach are an open system design, emergence, randomness inclusion, and Gödel incompleteness, which are contextualized using real-word instructive problems. Considering these concepts, several conjectures related to engineering activity and engineering education are presented taking several Brazilian catastrophes as counterexamples.
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